My Support Forums - View Single Post - Involuntary and voluntary hospitalizations preventing me from future Medical jobs?

BipolaRNurse · May 28, 2013, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic

That's how I understand it in theory but in practice people can fire you for anything. They also don't have to approve accommodations if they deem them unreasonable. You can expect a background check when you get hired and that will turn up an involuntary commitment. So if I were you I'd get it expunged because there is nothing saying anyone has to hire you whether you're a dr or not. Also you might want to post about the ADA to see what people say about it. I don't think it's as protective as you think in the real world.

That's for sure! I'm a nurse and was fired earlier this month from my director position, presumably because my employer 'couldn't' make the accommodations my pdoc requested for me to be able to continue in my job. In essence, however, I was let go because of my bipolar, which admittedly was made worse by the stress of the work.

I'm not saying that the OP can't be a doctor, not at all. In fact, I think s/he should be one, and will be a better one for the experience of being a patient and having firsthand knowledge of mental illness.

It's just that so many medical professionals are shamefully ignorant about psychiatric issues when WE'RE supposed to know better, and we tend to eat our own. There's nothing better than a success story to make people think. GOOD LUCK!!